Comments on: Copper Swim Suit Ad for Arizona (Jan, 1933)

By: Andrew L. Ayers

Andrew L. Ayers — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:11:54 +0000

#1 – I wouldn’t say so much a fixation as perhaps “local pride”; our classic “3 C’s” of industry have been “Cotton, Copper, and Citrus” – sadly, our state doesn’t produce nearly as much of any of the three as it did (or at least it seems that way). About all we produce now is bad laws and ill will toward us (not that I can blame the rest of the country; our legislators here are supremely tarded – democrats and republicans alike).

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:44:45 +0000

“…to show NAVELS in…”

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:43:39 +0000

Gene Roddenberry was not allowed by the network to show in the original Star Trek series (1966-1969). He compensated by giving the Terranean mutants two navels in his “Genesis II” pilot film in 1973.

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:52:03 +0000

In the summer of that year my mother was arrested for wearing the first two-piece bathing suit on Miami Beach. The charge, because she exposed her navel along with about 2″ of skin, was Indecent Exposure. She was 15 and it was something I never knew until I was well out of my teens!

By: Charlene

Charlene — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:43:43 +0000

Showing belly buttons? Thirty years before this they didn’t show ankles. Her outfit was probably considered somewhat advanced at the time (I mean other than the fact that it’s made of copper).

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:30:28 +0000

Would you wear the copper swimsuit with a tinfoil hat?

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By: Joey O'Neill

Joey O'Neill — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:00:24 +0000

They had a thing about belly-buttons. You couldn’t show them. This taboo lasted into the 60s I think.

Neilster

By: JM

JM — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:50:12 +0000

You’re right Mike, probably to avoid to generate a static electricity shock in anyone that could had kiss her or shake hands with her ….

By: Joey O'Neill

Joey O'Neill — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:41:36 +0000

Is that a lightning rod she’s holding?

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:09:57 +0000

Baron, US pennies have been made from copper-plated zinc since 1983 for exactly the reason you stated.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:31:14 +0000

She is quite the floozy in that suit!

I think she has a grounding wire attached to her right wrist.

By: Baron Waste

Baron Waste — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:41:07 +0000

This seems to be a fixation with 1930s Arizona. Write Letters on Copper Paper! Today, Congress is considering making pennies out of steel or zinc as they did in World War II, because copper is now worth far more than a pennyweight of it.